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Hi Bobbie,
3 times, 3 consecutive days. When I caught him staring at the mat during the day I stopped. I don’t like where it is going. However, we continue to work on our settle command for just being a good house dog when I have work to do. It is definitely a command, and not doggy meditation. But he is happy to chill in a designated spot, especially if he has something to chew on. He still can’t do it when my young aussie is out (nor can she do it when he is out) but he is good at it for a 20 ish minutes, with my older dog out also chilling. He is excellent at relaxing in a crate…even a soft sided one.
Hi Bobbie,
Sorry for what felt like a long break…we were off at a herding clinic. I do have several questions.The video you posted on several working dogs with the plate exercise (patterning): The person spent a lot of time at plate 1 before moving on to plate two…was that just to build value for looking at plate then person before putting the movement into the pattern?
What are your suggestions with a pretty intense eye dog–Ted looking at you LOL–who is happy to stare at the mat in a stand waiting for the next piece of very bland kibble to be placed. I feel like when he gets in a staring mode I have to do something to break him out of it–which is what I do in every other environment and have decreased it’s frequency and intensity significantly. However, you mentioned not to give any commands for the relaxation exercise. So not sure what to do when he locks up/stares. Because he can easily do that for 10 minutes and that really isn’t a path I want to go down. My instinct was to toss a cookie to reset and start over. I also really wanted to do some deep pressure stroking for a minute or two before starting.
I’m looking forward to learning so meany things 🙂
I do have a house keeping questionI am confused on what you want from me as an auditing student. In how the class work it said to create a thread and introduce myself. Then in the introduction it didn’t differentiate working/auditing students in how you wanted us to introduce ourselves. I assumed I should leave out the video, but didn’t know if you wanted one to just to see my super cute Kelpie LOL Should my questions focus on questions about the content, or can they also include questions specific to Ted and I and problems we might be having?
Thanks!!!
I have no clue why youtube didn’t put a preview up <shrug>
I liked that I had a plan and carried it out (get her on the board at beginning of session, do downs next to it to warm up behavior, and then try to intersperse a down on the board). I didn’t like my excess talking (good job, excellent). But luckily my dogs are forgiving and we got where I wanted to go 🙂 🙂
And yes I’ve slipped into posting random behavior shapping lessons…but good for me to film and look at the session 🙂
https://youtu.be/ZGZ_tPY3Z4g my comments in a few minutes
And it appears finger wiggling unintentionally got trained to mean careful …. Dang smart dogs 😂😆 working on getting it on a pure verbal https://youtu.be/vgO-RR-yLhk
So struggling to see a difference between quiet means doing a good job and just good building of duration? Maybe there is no difference? 😃🤷
I really liked most of this session 🙂 Her release is great and she did well with remote reinforcement. I think I started tossing for the catch once or twice early…but I caught myself in my head and quietly said Bad Beth without it impacting the training 😂😆 I also should probably have used remote reinforcement word instead of careful…
So I was going to video tonight, but see my facebook post about my amazing dog training skills and how I ended up with two dogs covered in mud LOL So instead I have a question about quiet being reinforcing and meaning yes…you are doing it right keep going. So if I put a remote reinforcement out of higher value than the dry kibble in my hand (assuming I’ve taught the remote reinforcement well) and I do something–like a stay–that is easy to work on duration–and I start with some quick careful and catches to warm up the behavior. And then do a longer duration saying nothing and then do the remote reinforcer…I feel like it’s almost a good thought but I’m missing a piece…Thoughts?
Grabbed a new none squeaky toy. Guess I should have warmed it up at the beginning lol. The toss is cute…but really need to remember it won’t be cute with a hard dumbbell lolSo, I did what I wasn’t supposed to do and switched up what I was going to do when he forgot how to bring the toy back to me. I should have stopped and made a plan. However, I liked at the end where if I followed him in so I had room to move away from him I got closer to what I wanted.
Tori was off to a pet puppy class and did a great job with the get it and careful and catch with a small area and 4 lab pups, a vizla who wants to start a fight, a little white thing and a golden who would like to take the vizla down. She lasted about 30 minutes with a break and then we called it good 🙂
https://youtu.be/NfvJ_NkicDs Comments in a few minutes 🙂
Uploaded from my phone…so here are the comments (I don’t text/type well on my phone LOL)
First, I find it funny jumping between sports how definitions change 🙂 While I agree the last one could have been divided up better so I could plan better…it wasn’t a long obedience lesson 🙂 🙂 🙂 LOL
This one I focussed mainly on remote training…but when I went back to watch it, I realize I do a lot of remote training with my dogs, just no cue, because I’m lazy 🙂 🙂 When I just put the toy on the bed at the beginning, Tori totally knew not to mess with it. Then I started training it and it was a whole other thing. But none of my dogs would go over to where the bags of treats were or the other toys on the bed.
I did try and focus on my out and not cuing it too much with physical cues from the other treat hand. I caught myself doing it, and then the out was harder when I held that hand still. 🙂 But she caught on fast. I need to become as good a trainer as she is LOL
Haven’t had time to watch the zoom call I missed. Looking forward to it tonight. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Always always love working on interval between reinforcements and increasing that interval. Also, working on me being quiet and still being a cue that a reinforcer is coming and you are doing well–almost a keep going cue but not exactly. And working on random treats that are on the ground and only the treats I specifically give/toss to you (i.e. doing a tracking test through a field covered in goose poop or heeling on an agility floor covered with left over treat scents and often treats).
Sorry this is slightly longer than 10 min…but I kind of liked the look at the whole session. I loved that Tori hung in there for the whole time (she’s not a year yet). And while the ignoring the reinforcer wasn’t great, I liked how it’s your choice seems to be working as a good bridge. I also need to remember my word is jackpot and not let’s go (which is my heeling word lol).
